Tag: First Week of January Test

First Week of January Test (2015 Edition)

The other day, in the wee early hours of the Monday of All Mondays, subscribers to my email list received, just like clockwork (just like calendarwork?), their FWoJT email (their First Week of January Test email). This year the Monday of All Mondays — I speak here, of course, of […]

John Friedman Financial’s Statement of Fundamental Principals, Number One: Financial Health Defined

This is a long’ish piece — about 2,400 words. It might take you twenty minutes or more to read it. It might’ve taken me twenty years or more to think it. And it for-sure took me many, many hours to do my best to make it entertaining as well as […]

The First Week of January Test, 2014: How Does it Feel to Be Back After the Holidays?

Dark and early this morning, before even mentioning his favorite and seemingly ever-present traffic jam on the Sunol Grade, long-time KQED traffic guy Joe McConnell said it nice ‘n blunt:   It’s back to the grind for most of us today.   It’s a common enough phrase, but hearing it […]

The First Week of January Test, 2013 Version

So how does it feel? How does it feel to be back in the saddle after the holidays? You can think of the way in which this first Monday of the working year hits you as being akin to what happens at the Large Haldron Collider when particles racing close to […]

An Exquisite Balance

It’s a Monday! Mondays can be tough sometimes, yes? Why, songs have been written about how tough Mondays can be . . . And this is not just any Monday. No, this is the first Monday of the New Year! So we look back at all the fun we had […]